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Definition of ethnology
1 : a science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics
2 : anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures : cultural anthropology
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Kay Fowler, who also was at the Smithsonian, recovered Powell’s manuscripts from 1867-1880 at the ethnology bureau, and the two then collated, annotated and published them in 1971.
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First Known Use of ethnology
1787
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ethnologies
1: a science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics
2: anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures : cultural anthropology
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